Panzer I and II: The Birth of Hitler's Panzerwaffe

While the Panzer I and II are not as famous as the German tanks produced later in the Second World War, they played a vital role in Hitler's early blitzkrieg campaigns and in the Nazi rearmament program pursued, at first in secret, by the Nazi regime during the 1930s. Anthony Tucker—Jones's photographic history of their design, development and wartime service is an ideal introduction to them.

Both Panzers saw combat during the invasions of Poland and France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia...